- From: Andrew Pam <xanni@glasswings.com.au>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 05:17:33 +1000
- To: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3c.org
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 02:39:24PM -0400, P. T. Rourke wrote: > Seriously, web page names shouldn't have spaces in them. If a page is on an > NT box, you can usually get to it in other (non-Amaya) browsers using an > escaped space (%20 I think); I haven't tried that in Amaya. But it's a bad, > bad idea: unix don't like spaces, and some of your readers will be unix. Not so. Space is perfectly legal in Unix; you just need to quote it in some cases, such as on the command line (where it has another meaning) or in a URL (where unquoted spaces are not legal). Spaces are also legal in filenames in (OS/2) HPFS, VFAT (W95 and later), NTFS and HFS. Of course, a URL with quoted spaces may be somewhat less comprehensible, but there's nothing invalid or illegal about it. Cheers, *** Xanni *** -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Technology Manager, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/sc/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics P.O. Box 26, East Melbourne VIC 8002 Australia Phone +61 0401 258 915
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